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Ongoing: A Correspondence Between Barbad Golshiri and Sandra Skurvida
Sandra Skurvida:I propose a conversational shift from a stereotypical/allegorical/exilical romanticism to a political domesticism — I have in mind the younger generation of artists in Iran who exhibit in their works and their life choices an unconditional will to remain in their country, as you have declared in 2009, “we have chosen to breathe hatred, tear and pepper gas, instead of hanging onto nostalgia and the myths of exile and of “the innocent artist.” There is little “innocence” to be found in the situation where resistance is neither a romantic dream nor an academic discourse but rather everyday negotiation. This determinate domesticism calls for artworks that are socially engaged and specific to their site of emergence(y), that care for their audiences, and don’t give a damn what Europe or the US have to say about them. In 2009, you have spoken resolutely about self-definition and self-determination of an artist in Iran; how would you address this position today, two years later, in a context as saturated with intensifying political catalysis as it was then? If you were to write an amendment to the e-flux essay today, what would it be?
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Ongoing: Time We Stopped: a Correspondence with Barbad Golshiri
Sandra Skurvida with Barbad Golshiri
In this excerpt from an extended email exchange, Sandra Skurvida and artist Barbad Golshiri delve into the position of the artist in Iran today, and reveal the ruptures and opportunities that the oppressive regime affords cultural practitioners.
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Slavs and Tatars: Embrace Your Antithesis (Molla Nasreddin)
Slavs and Tatars
The spreads from these pages are taken from Molla Nasreddin, a weekly political satire that ran from 1906 thru 1930, one of the most important periodicals of the Muslim world in the 20th century, Molla Nasreddin was a progressive weekly read from Morocco to India. In 2011, Slavs and Tatars edited and translated a selection of the magazine’s illustrations for the first time in English for the publication Molla Nasreddin: the magazine that would’ve, could’ve, should’ve (JRP|Ringier).
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The Adventures of SuperSohrab: Heroism & Patronage - The Summit
Sohrab Kashani
Sohrab Kashani's graphic novel showcases the stark reality that foreclosed borders can have on artists, and in doing so reveals the aesthetic and generative qualities that censorship can afford practitioners.
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The Vows of Love We Make Will Live Until We Die
Katayoun Vaziri
There are three images produced by the artist. Download any of them and alter however you want (paint on it, tear it, put stuff on it, digitally manipulate it and any other way). Take a picture of the result and return it to us. Once you submit your image, your name would be added shortly to list of the contributors to this work, and your artwork will be visible on the website as part of the grid.
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White Wall Tehran
Anahita Razmi, White Wall Tehran, 2007, 0:49
By erasing 27 seconds from Anahita Razmi's video camera, the Iranian National Guard collaborated on a beautiful soundscape set against the wall of the National Guard headquarters.
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Artist Interview: Ahmad Hosni
Conducted by Dar Al-Ma’mûn
"I have always been interested in tourism in ‘peripheral’ non-metropolitan areas, and my work is usually about a specific place. I needed to know more about the [Atlas] region and research the development of tourism in the area. Being at Dar Al-Ma’mûn gave me an opportunity to visit the Atlas extensively and to walk down the common tourist tracks, as well as less trodden ones, to know the place, and to locate nodes of interest."
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Home Sweet Home New York/Berlin
by Youmna Chlala & Jeanno Gaussi
Home Sweet Home New York/Berlin addresses the spatial experience of a residency. The impact of space is measured by how one adjusts and shifts to a new location, as habits and ritual are deeply affected. This marks a particular relationship with temporality and urgency usually manifested by the pressure to act & produce given a limited time period. A residency is usually defined as being outside the home space, away from dailyness. In the project, we reinsert home as a central part of the experience. By sending each other instructions we initiate interaction with the home space that draws on the element of chance.
This dialogue furthers not only the creative act, but also the rapport between participants that so often happens in unexpected ways. Looking at a a chair, window or wall in a different way allows us to create a new relationship to objects and space.
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Reflecting on Residencies
by former residents of Dar Al-Ma’mûn, Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Delfina Foundation, La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre, and Makan
"I think the most important part of a residency is to create a temporary —imaginary — life style for yourself. Thus, all your quotidian priorities and plans relating to the "real world" change. All of a sudden, you adapt to a whole different way of life and the game starts right there..."
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Residencies Talk Series Podcasts
Artistic residencies in the U.S, which have a great influence on the professional careers of artists, were until recently largely unavailable to artists from the Middle East. With increased attention to the burgeoning arts scene in the region and the changing realities post 9/11, this state of affairs seems poised to change. A year-long series of talks marking ArteEast's own Residency Initiative explores the most salient issues facing contemporary residency programs in the MENA region and internationally. We present this program here in a series of podcasts.
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Residency as Refuge: freeDimensional - An Experiment In Organizational Social Practice
by Todd Lester
"freeDimensional works with the global arts community to identify and redistribute resources, and support meaningful relationships between art spaces and activists. freeDimensional delivers services that connect arts residencies and human rights organizations to demonstrate and share a specific method, both as an example of discrete utility and a model of dissemination that may guide other approaches to bridge social justice and the arts. During its first five years freeDimensional came to the aid of over 200 artists doing courageous work benefitting their communities at the expense of their livelihoods, safety and free expression..."
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Setting the Record Straight: Towards a More Nuanced Conversation on Residencies and Capital
by Moukhtar Kocache
"As art became more engaged with other fields and its mandate was increasingly popularized, other sectors in society recognized the developmental, creative, civic and critical attributes of the arts. Developments in artist residencies from, say, patron initiated painting studios to artist-run colonies or science and commerce based research programs, did not take place in a vacuum but rather happened in tandem with specific ideological, political, and governance contexts and historical moments mostly in Europe and North America where these residencies flourished."
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The Artist Residency in the 21st Century: Experiments in Cultural Potentiality and Contamination
by Warren Neidich
"...the 'residency without walls' adapts to the rubric of the early 21st century and embraces this idea of the immaterialization of architecture as a mechanism by which to unhinge regimes of oppression that attempt to debilitate it as a cultural and neurobiological modifier.... The residency without walls first of all must unshackle the conditions of its zones of conformity by reinventing itself and embracing the idea of its role as a space of cultural contamination."
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The Residency Handbook
This resource manual offers readers a brief overview of online platforms and print sources relevant to understanding residencies and the social, cultural and political contexts in which they function. International conferences and symposia have assembled to tighten networks of institutions, and web-based platforms have started to disseminate audio and video recordings as well as written reflections on their proceedings. In spite of this increasing prominence, there is a significant lack of publicly available analysis, assessment and critique of the format and structure of residencies themselves. This absence is duly felt: for practitioners in the field our ability to make sense of the trajectory and means of funding such initiatives lies heavily in our capacity to efficiently access historical narratives and models. This guide represents an initial survey of online resources and publicly available information. The offline resources are divided into distinct research areas to map out the current limits of writing that exists and to encourage further inquiry and research.
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